Research interests

Randall McGuire is an archaeologist whose principal interests lie in the development
of power relations in the past. He has carried out most of his field work in the U.S.
Southwest and currently is conducting a long-term field project in northwest Mexico.
He has also done historical archaeology and oral history research in the northeastern
U.S. In 2010, he completed a project investigating the 1913-1914 coal strike in southern
Colorado. He is starting research in contemporary archaeology on the U.S. – Mexican
border around Nogales, Arizona. In addition to historical archaeology, history and
ethnology, his interests include quantitative methods, social theory, cultural resource
management and archaeomagnetic dating.